Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your profile of Princess Margaret [TIME, June 13] read like a [movie] scenario . . . For the first time in many years of reading TIME, I suspect the veracity of your researchers. How in the world could you dig up such material on a royal personage...
...Princess Margaret has no idea of going to the United States at present," replied her lady-in-waiting to an invitation from the Ogdensburg, N.Y. Chamber of Commerce. "In fact, it would be quite impossible for her to do so" (the letter did not explain why). But anyhow, the princess sent her thanks to Ogdensburg, and wanted the Chamber of Commerce to know "how very much she would like to accept...
...lyrics and inserted Baby into the score of a picture, Neptune's Daughter (see CINEMA), that he was doing for MGM. Spotting it as a natural, record companies put their best boy-&-girl teams to recording it. First with the best: Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark (Columbia), Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Mercury even got Frank and Lynn Loesser on wax. MGM, which peddles records as well as motion pictures, and originally had the inside track on Baby, was left at the post and lamely put out a record of the song from the film's soundtrack...
...freshman at Wellesley College, brown-eyed Margaret Clapp found herself one day on both academic and social probation. She was flubbing physics and had come in too late one night from a date ("The car really did break down"). It was not the best of beginnings, but Margaret Clapp did not let it stop...
...hopes that as president she will have time to teach again. "I'd like the kids to have more willingness to try things," Margaret Clapp says. "I think that perhaps they should be encouraged to make mistakes-make fools of themselves -and afterward be shown that it doesn't make so much difference after...